The Department for Transport has this week announced 43 routes which are to benefit
from the latest round of kickstart funding from the government which totals £20million.

Included with the successful bids is one from Oxfordshire County Council who have
secured £93,693 to provide later evening journeys on service X40 between Reading and RAF
Benson via Wallingford. The X40 was introduced in July 2004 to link three individual
subsidised services into a through service.

Thames Travel T564 PNV in Reading on 22nd October 2005. T564 PNV is on
short term loan, probably pending delivery of four Scania OmniTowns destined for Oxford -
Wallingford service X39. The X39 connects with the X40 in Wallingford and is due to have
it's frequency doubled early in 2006 as part of a separate partnership with Oxfordshire
County Council.

More information about Kickstart and the other successful bids can be found on the DfT
website.